London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) has held a prominent place in British music-making for more than seven decades. With a wide reach across Britain, in addition to its regular concerts in London's Cadogan Hall, including concerts in places where access to orchestral music is limited, the RPO can lay claim to the title of Britain's national orchestra. The RPO incorporates the pops-oriented Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the avant-garde Sharp Edge group, and RPO Resound, a community and educational outreach program.
The RPO's broad contemporary appeal, which has included appearances with popular music stars and on film, television, and video game soundtracks, would have been lauded by its founder and first conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, who set up the RPO in 1946 and helped lead a vital revival in the U.K.'s orchestral life after World War II. The new orchestra prospered, beginning a long summer residency at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1948 and touring the U.S. in 1950, becoming the first English orchestra to do so since 1912. Rudolf Kempe became principal conductor upon Beecham's death in 1961. The orchestra hit a rough patch in the early '60s under the leadership of Beecham's widow; Kempe departed (and then returned), and the orchestra temporarily lost the right to use the "royal" designation. That was restored by Queen Elizabeth II in 1966, and several strong conductors, Antal Doráti (1975-1978), André Previn (1985-1992), and Vladimir Ashkenazy (music director, 1987-1994), built the orchestra artistically. Later conductors have included Daniele Gatti, Yuri Temirkanov, Charles Dutoit, and Vasily Petrenko, who began his tenure as music director in 2021.
The RPO is especially notable for the depth and variety of its recording program, which in the first few years of its existence had already topped 100 items; by the early 2020s decade, the orchestra had issued many hundreds of recordings, stretching from pop (disco enthusiasts will remember it as the orchestra featured on the Hooked on Classics recordings of the 1980s) to new avant-garde music. Among these was a 125-album contract with the Tring label. The orchestra's RPO Records, formed in 1986, is thought to have been the first recording label owned by a symphony orchestra; such an arrangement is now commonplace. The following year, the RPO launched the light music (or pops in the U.S.) companion group, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.
In 1993, the RPO inaugurated an educational and community outreach program titled RPO Resound. This program provides musical experiences outside of traditional concert settings, such as schools, prisons, and hospitals. Among the key projects for this program is the stroke rehabilitation project STROKESTRA. The RPO is the resident music ensemble of Cadogan Hall in Chelsea, becoming the first London orchestra to have a permanent home, giving its first concert there in 2004. In 2019, the RPO released Animal Requiem by rocker Pete Townshend's collaborator and marital partner, Rachel Fuller. That year, the RPO was named the associate orchestra of the Royal Albert Hall. Among the orchestra's 2022 albums are a recording of two Sibelius Symphonies and Air, featuring the music of Oliver Davis. The next year, they teamed with Joe Hisaishi for A Symphonic Celebration, which reimagined songs from beloved Studio Ghibli animated films.
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Academy Award Themes
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Intereuro il 3 giu 2008
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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 - Mussorgsky & Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition, M. A 24
Sir John Pritchard, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 1 lug 2002
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Elgar: Cockaigne Overture; Pomp & Circumstance Marches Nos.1-5; Enigma Variations
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Sir Georg Solti
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 1977
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Thomas: Hamlet
Antonio de Almeida, Thomas Hampson, June Anderson, Samuel Ramey, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 1 gen 1993
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Strauss: The Blue Danube - Die Fledermaus - Radetzky March
Jacek Kaspszyk, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Collins Classics il 31 dic 1989
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Khachaturian: Violin Concerto; Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Sérénade mélancolique; Souvenir d'un lieu cher (Ruggiero Ricci: Complete Decca Recordings, Vol. 3)
Ruggiero Ricci, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oivin Fjeldstad, Anatole Fistoulari
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. il 8 ott 2021
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Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture ? Capriccio Italien ? Marche Slave ? Swan Lake
London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Alwyn
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. il 1 gen 1958
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Rubbra: Festival Overture & Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Sir Adrian Boult
Classica - Pubblicato da Lyrita il 1 gen 1992
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Holst: The Hymn of Jesus; The Perfect Fool; Egdon Heath; Country Song (Adrian Boult – The Decca Legacy I, Vol. 15)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. il 7 ott 2022
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Beethoven: Overture, Fidelio & Symphony No. 3 (Live)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Classica - Pubblicato da London Philharmonic Orchestra il 1 apr 2017
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Conductor's Gallery, Vol. 20: Leo Blech, Sergiu Celibidache
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leo Blech, Sergiù Celibidache
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. il 25 ago 2023
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 (Live)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Aldo Ciccolini, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Classica - Pubblicato da London Philharmonic Orchestra il 2 feb 2018
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Citizen Kane - Film Music by Bernard Herrmann
London Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 1989
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Ravel: Piano Concertos / Fauré: Fantasie
Alicia de Larrocha, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 21 ott 1974
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 & 4; Hebrides Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 2000
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Schostakowitsch: Sinfonie Nr. 7 "Leningrader"
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca il 1 gen 1980
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Piano Concerto No.2 In C Minor Opus 18 - S. Rachmaninov
Julius Katchen, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Georg Solti, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 gen 1992
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Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Glazunov: Violin Concertos
Jascha Heifetz, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Classica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 26 giu 2020
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Walton: Viola Concerto, Sonata for String Orchestra & Hindemith Variations
Jan Latham-Koenig, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nobuko Imai
Sinfonie - Pubblicato da Chandos il 1 nov 1992
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Lehár: Die lustige Witwe (Live at Royal Festival Hall, 1993)
Felicity Lott, Thomas Hampson, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
Opera - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 1 gen 1994
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Hitchcock The Great Movie Thrillers
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 15 dic 1969
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